Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Apple sued over G3 support in OS X

MacCentral: Apple sued over G3 support in OS X

A lawyer has filed a class-action for promising to support G3s and then not delivering. I have one of the affected machines, but I don't think I'd be able to join the suit since I'm Canadian. I could be wrong.

Everyone knows I love Apple, but, they've really screwed over the people who own the early G3 Macs, and I'd love to see Apple settle this by delivering on their promises. (DVD, IRDA and accelerated OpenGL, ATI and QT drivers)

NewsFactor on Apple’s long term Cocoa strategy

NewsFactor: Apple Wants Developers To Get Cocoa While It's Hot

I feel a little silly doing this, but….

Cheryl and I have decided that Matthias didn't look like
a Matthias. We both said to each other that it felt
forced, not natural. We also agreed that he looked a
LOT more like a Xavier. We decided to do something
about this before the official paperwork was done and
it was too late.

Our son shall now be known as, Xavier Matthias Kurt
Roepcke. Sorry for the misstep, but better to fix this
now than later, I think.

Cheryl and Xavier came home from the hospital last night.
The night wasn't as bad as I expected, but Cheryl got a
weird case of the chills in the middle of the night,
reminiscent of the one brought on by the spinal in the
recovery room after the C-Section.

I'll post more pictures and updates later. I'm actually
posting this from an Internet terminal in the Juan de Fuca
Library in Colwood. Cyan is at her "Story Time".

Seeing as I don't have a dedicated internet connection,
I'm happy I'm using Conversant, a centralized CMS, to
post this instead of a tool where I'd be bound to posting
only from my desktop or laptop (which couldn't be
connected to the Internet here in the library).

Speedpool2

Hehe, Speedpool2 looks fun! Thanks for linking to it, Cam.

Mo’ sheets

Oh my... Mozilla has implemented sheets on OS X.

The lastest trunk builds are great. Last week's builds were so bad I went back to using IE for a while. :-/

ICeCoffEE

Nicholas Riley is 'da man'.

If you're using OS X you really want to get his ICeCoffEE input manager, which puts the Services menu in your right-click contextual menu when text is selected.

Strong boy!

Cyan has been really nervous lately, all this excitement is too much for her to handle. She had a bit of a meltdown tonight, so we stayed home and played games on pbskids.org and watched Snow White on DVD instead of making the trip to the hospital again where things are strange and anxious.

This afternoon we were at the hospital though. I gave Mattthias a bath, burped him a couple times, helped him sleep... he's a really strong boy -- he can already pretty much hold his head up on his own and look around!

Cyan gave him some water in a bottle, she thought that was great. As long as her sniffles don't develop into anything more ominous, we'll go back tomorrow to visit again...

In other great news, the Oilers beat the Maple Leafs 4-1 on Hockey Night in Canada tonight! Yay!

Goodnight, all.

X. M. K. R.

Introducing: Xavier Matthias Kurt Roepcke

Kurt is my Dad's middle name, my Opa's first name. We promised my parents a long time ago Kurt would be his middle name. We couldn't decide between Matthias and Xavier, so we decided to keep both of them. We'll let him decide which he wants to go by once he's old enough to tell us.

I've taken some more pictures, I'll post another one later. Right now I have to read the email in the discussion group and finish replying to the many private emails we've received!

We changed the spelling of Matthias from "ais" to "ias". We debated this last night, my parents were sure "ais" was the traditional spelling. I think they're right, but nowadays it always ends in "ias". Thanks for bringing this to our attention, André!

Update: This picture was taken last night with his Uncle Shane, Cheryl's youngest brother.

Thank you!

Before Cyan and I go to the hospital this morning, we'd like to thank everyone who has sent in congats, good wishes, and cheer. I'd also like to thank everyone who's been giving us name suggestions!

I'll bring the laptop in with me, Cheryl and I can look over the email archive of the conversation together.

Someone mentioned Logan... that was one of my earliest suggestions. I think that name rocks. But I think Cheryl knows it's Wolverine's "real" name and doesn't like it as a result.

RE: On the way to the hospital shortly

Dave mentions yesterday was also the birthday of the Macintosh, and wonders if we'll name our kid Mac in honour of that.

I actually thought of Mac the day before yesterday, and brought it up with the family. They didn't think I was serious but I was. Okay, I made a joke about having his name be Irving Mac and you could call him iMac for short, but I really was serious! It's a cool name, and even cooler now that I hear it was also the Mac's birthday.

Not sure he looks like Mac, though. Would make a great nickname though.